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Lalo Schifrin
Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording]
Genres: International Music, Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. Main Title
2. Tar Sequence
3. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
4. The Chase
5. Lucille
6. Egg Eating Contest
7. Eye-Ballin Glasses
8. Arletta Blues
9. Criss-Crossing The Fence
10. Plastic Jesus
11. Got My Mind Back
12. Ballad Of Cool Hand Luke
13. First Morning
14. Bean Time
15. Road Gang
16. Radio In Barracks
17. Dog Boy
18. End Title
19. Symphonic Sketches Of Cool Hand Luke
20. Down Here On The Ground (Symphonic Version)

CD Details

All Artists: Lalo Schifrin
Title: Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording]
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Aleph Records
Original Release Date: 11/1/1967
Re-Release Date: 5/8/2001
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: International Music, Pop, Soundtracks
Styles: South & Central America, Argentina
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 651702634323

Synopsis

Amazon.com

With an iconic, Academy Award®-nominated lead performance by Paul Newman as the free spirit who refuses to be broken by cruel Southern justice, director Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke has rightly taken its place as a modern American classic. One of the key elements to the film's deft balance of drama and humor is also its most unlikely: the Oscar®-nominated score of Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin. As he's done throughout a career that's moved gracefully between jazz recordings, classical podiums, and scoring stages, Schifrin's music fuses seemingly disparate genres--bluegrass, symphonic, rhythmic jazz--into a soundtrack that evokes them all yet becomes distinctly more than the sum of its parts. Given that gratifying sensibility, it's a soundtrack full of surprising twists and turns, crackling with energy. Such is its dynamic nature that one reedited cut ("Tar Sequence") has taken on a second life as the ubiquitous "Eyewitness News" theme music at local TV stations across America. --Jerry McCulley

CD Reviews

Cool Hand Lalo

Brandon Cutro | Tyler, Texas United States | 11/03/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Never having heard the music from Cool Hand Luke, I decided to pick up a copy of this soundtrack anyway because I like Lalo Schifrin. I'm glad I got this soundtrack because it is really good. It actually was nominated for an oscar back in 1967. The main theme is a catchy guitar rhythm and also a song titled "Down Here On the Ground" in which guitar, banjo, and sometimes harmonica are used. "Tar Sequence" has actually been used as a theme for a news program. The piano sequences sound like something Jerry Goldsmith would write and actually has used before. The other action cues are "The Chase" and "Criss-Crossing the Fence". There are some jazz tracks present in "Egg Eating Contest" and "Ballad of Cool Hand Luke". The last 2 tracks are symphonic versions of the main theme and the song "Down Here on the Ground". Most of the tracks have a bluegrass feel to them and sound like they belong on a bluegrass compilation album. The time on the soundtrack runs a little under 60 minutes, which is plenty of music. Get this score if you can find it. It was re-released on Schifrin's record company Aleph last year and you may end up finding it if you look hard. It is worth it though."

Flawed

The Critic | Claremont, CA, USA | 05/14/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a very nice re-recording of the original score, but lacks the heart of the original in a few ways. First, the songs from the film are re-recorded and rather lifeless compared to the film soundtrack. Secondly, the "Tar Sequence" track has been given a strange piece of introductory music rather than just starting naturally and loudly, as in the film.

Still a good listen, but these changes are not for the best. Probably still the preferable version of the Cool Hand Luke CD."